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Grieving Provincetown's Beech trees—and the foods they've long provided

This week on the Local Food Report, grieving the beech trees of Provincetown’s beech forest—and the nuts they’ve long ...
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The threat facing American beech trees | Gardener State

One of my favorite trees is the iconic American Beech (Fagus grandifolia). I love its smooth, light bluish gray bark — the silvery green leaf in spring that gradually changes to a dark green in summer ...

A tiny invader continues to decimate beech trees across New England. Here’s what to do if it attacks your yard.

This leaf disease has been firmly established in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut and has spread north into New ...
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Will beech trees go the way of the ash and the American elm? Holden Arboretum, others hope to prevent decimation of another native tree

But there’s hope, and that’s where Holden Arboretum is playing an important role, whether it’s researching spread of the disease, experimenting with insecticides, or trying to clone trees that are ...
Science Daily

Beech trees are dying, and nobody's sure why

A confounding new disease is killing beech trees in Ohio and elsewhere, and plant scientists are sounding an alarm while looking for an explanation. Researchers and naturalists in northeastern Ohio ...
upnorthlive

Efforts in northern Michigan to protect beech trees from disease

LEELANAU COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- Beech bark disease is taking over America's beech trees and the plant biologists in Michigan have come together to find a way to fight it. Kirk Acharya at the ...
WTEN

Beech leaf disease: What it is, what to do about it

BOLTON, N.Y. (NEWS10) – A disease threatening one of the Adriondack Park’s most commonly-sighted trees has reared its head. Last week, the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP) reported a ...
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Trees resistant to beech bark disease planted at Sleeping Bear Dunes

EMPIRE, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- The latest efforts to combat beech bark disease are underway at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Beech bark disease is caused by two organisms: an invasive insect ...
Untapped Cities

NYC’s Two Landmarked Trees: Weeping Beech & Magnolia Grandiflora

While New York City’s landmarks are usually thought of as individual buildings or historic districts (and the occasional park), there are some unusual ones in the mix. Two of those landmarks are ...
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Microscopy confirms beech leaf disease threatens European beech trees, too

A new study from Holden Forests & Gardens and a team at USDA Agricultural Research Service confirms that beech leaf disease—a fast-spreading disease already devastating American beech across eastern ...
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Beech trees are dying, and nobody's sure why

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A confounding new disease is killing beech trees in Ohio and elsewhere, and plant scientists are sounding an alarm while looking for an explanation. In a study published in the ...